It would appear that top McCain economic advisor Phil "Nation of Whiners" Gramm is baaack. Here he is, speaking to Republican National Convention attendees (and others) at a Financial Services Roundtable event in Minneapolis earlier today:
"If you're sitting here today, you're not economically illiterate and you're not a whiner, so I'm not worried about who you're going to vote for," the former Texas senator told attendees at a Financial Services Roundtable event in Minneapolis on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention.
The Obama campaign responded:
The man who wrote John McCain's economic plan further insulted struggling Americans by suggesting that if they are not attending the Republican Convention, they are not only whiners, but economically illiterate.
That's right, McCain's top economic advisor is so out of touch that he not only repeats an offensive and politically stupid remark, he makes it even worse by implying that only people at the Republican Convention are economically literate. Except for John McCain himself, of course, as he has admitted he knows very little about economics.
UPDATE: And so is Joe Lieberman. See the "flip" for a video in which Lieberman says he'll help Obama "reach to the stars."
Comments
Speaking of Whining, Graham Has Done Some of His Own (norman swingvoter - 9/2/2008 5:39:53 PM)
This is a good article talking about the contributions of Graham and his wife to the Enron collapse, also the contribution of Graham to the mortgage crisis. That mccain is so involved with graham says a lot about his judgement, of course he has admitted he doesn't understand economics.
cannot be so blind about Gramm. So I must believe that it is a lack of moral fortitude that causes McCain to hang on the Gramm like a baby with a rattle.
McCain -- caught in another lie (KathyinBlacksburg - 9/2/2008 5:53:32 PM)
Gramm never really left the campaign. They just changed his title and hid him out for a while. Another example of John McCain lying and getting away with it at the hands of the fawning media.
Another example of Republican tactics (Teddy - 9/2/2008 6:03:36 PM)
Always stay your course since you are, of course, right, and the peons are tiresome illiterates who don't know the Insider Secrets that you do (which accounts for that Republican smirk so many seem to have). When you do something egregious, not to worry; you will be taken care of, although they may countrify you momentarily (that is, hide you out of sight or give you an innoucuous job in some Siberia); you are assured, however, that you will come back in triumph, as if you had never done anything wrong, but quite the reverse.
It's "mess up and move up." It is also a typical trait of aristocracies everywhere.
is a code phrase which means "we all know the secrets of the Free Market" ("and have profited handsomely").
Here is a red flag that these folks are unreconstructed Free Marketers, acolytes of Friedman economics with all its emphasis on profit motive and personal aggrandisement, and the disaster and misery it has brought the world. (Please see my article immediately below, posted on 1 September, "Kill the Free Market Religion"). And these Free Marketers are going to bring us "Change?" What a scam.
Lieberman: I will help Obama "reach to the stars" (Lowell - 9/2/2008 7:31:42 PM)
All I can say is, "oy vey."
Tom DeLay is back as well... (Lowell - 9/2/2008 7:49:36 PM)
The finger food was hilarious and troubling (aznew - 9/2/2008 9:16:22 PM)
In all honesty, it is that kind of crap that erodes any belief people have that government has any intention of tackling problems in any kind of serious way.
I mean, really, a law has banned fork and knife meals, but it is ok to replace those pieces of silverware with crab claws to scoop food?
Joe Lieberman greatest hits! (Lowell - 9/2/2008 9:33:51 PM)
It would appear that top McCain economic advisor Phil "Nation of Whiners" Gramm is baaack. Here he is, speaking to Republican National Convention attendees (and others) at a Financial Services Roundtable event in Minneapolis earlier today: